Word: lorain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio paving contractors, back in the 1920s, when a newspaper publisher attacked their bid for a city contract. The Horvitz brothers decided that the way to answer Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles was to go into the newspaper business them selves, in competition with Hoiles's papers in Lorain (pop. 44,000) and Mansfield (pop. 37,000). By 1930 the contractors had won their fight. Publisher Hoiles,† who had made many enemies by his violent attacks on schools, churches and unions, sold out his Lorain and Mansfield papers, and they were later merged with the Horvitz dailies...
...Practices? The Horvitz monopoly was threatened when the Federal Communications Commission licensed radio stations in Mansfield and later in Elyria (ten miles from Lorain). From the start, Mansfield's WMAN and Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were...
Last week the Department of Justice filed a civil suit against the Lorain Journal and the Horvitz brothers for conspiracy to monopolize the dissemination of news, advertising and other information. It was the first antitrust action charging a newspaper with seeking to injure a competing radio station. Besides refusing ads, the Journal was accused of trying to persuade employees of WEOL to quit, and of making a deal with an Elyria paper not to circulate or solicit ads in Lorain...
Good Company.The government asked for a court order to make the Lorain Journal stop all this. (Penalty for disobeying: fines and jail sentences.) Attorney General J. Howard McGrath emphasized that the suit did not abridge freedom of the press. Said he: "As the Supreme Court pointed out in the Associated Press case, freedom to keep others from publishing news is not guaranteed by the Constitution" (TIME, July...
Replied Sam Horvitz: "The whole thing boils down to whether a newspaper has the right to accept or reject advertising . . . We're in good company-the Du Ponts, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, and now the Lorain Journal...